"Chilling. . . . Day of Reckoning is dynamite."--Chicago Tribune
John Katzenbach's third novel, now back in print, is the spellbinding
story of a family in jeopardy and what happens when that family is
pushed to the brink. Megan and Duncan Richards are no longer the radical
activists they were in 1968. He's a banker, and she works in real
estate. They have a fine house and three kids they adore. Their youth is
safely stashed away until the day Duncan answers his office phone and
gets the message he's been dreading from the woman he's spent two
decades trying to forget. She called herself Tanya. In 1968, she was the
beautiful, charismatic leader of northern California's radical Phoenix
Brigade. She was the one who had assured Duncan and Megan that no one
would be hurt in the robbery she'd so brilliantly orchestrated, but when
it turned into a slaughter and nearly everyone involved was captured or
killed, she laid the blame on them.
The Richardses escaped. But now, after eighteen years in prison, Tanya
herself is free again, poised to avenge her version of what happened on
that blood-drenched day so long ago.